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12 Practice Tests for the SAT
Practice Test Eleven Answers and Explanations
10. B
Difficulty: Medium
The relative pronoun which is misused here.
Instead of joining the two ideas clumsily, (B) makes each idea
independent and links them with a semicolon. Choices (C)
and (E) change the meaning. Tom finds the length of golf
games particularly boring, not golf itself. Choice (D) adds the
preposition to, which does not correct the usage problem.
11. D
Difficulty: Medium
Take a look at the pronouns here. They has an incorrect
antecedent; it should refer to the nation, but then it would
have to be the singular it. However, if you replace they with
it, another problem arises-an unclear antecedent. Does it
refer to the nation or the government? You have to make that
distinction in your choice. Only (D) does this, by replacing
the pronoun with the noun nation. Choice (B) is incorrect
because it replaces they with it and violated with was
violating. You can eliminate (C) because it changes imposed
to has imposed and maintains the incorrect pronoun,
they. Choice (E) changes the meaning of the sentence-a
renegade nation becomes a nation of renegades.
12. E
Difficulty: Medium
The sentence contains no error, although the phrasing
may have sounded strange to your ear. Choice (A) That
may sound odd as a beginning of a sentence, but it is
grammatically correct. Choices (B) and (C) are correct as
singular verbs with proper idiomatic uses of prepositions for
and to. Choice (D) is a correct use of an adjective.
13. c
Difficulty: Medium
Would of is not standard written English, and it makes no
sense. The sentence should read would have grown up.
14. D
Difficulty: Medium
The correct idiom here is preferable to, not preferable than.
15. B
Difficulty: Low
Pronouns are often misused in spoken English, so even if
they sound correct, check to be sure.
Try the sentence without the other cyclists. Would you say
me immediately started pedaling? No. The pronoun me is
part of the subject of the sentence, so it should be /. The
word other, (A), shows that me is part of the group. The
adverb immediately, (C), correctly modifies the verb started.
Blown correctly modifies whistle.
16. B
Difficulty: Low
When you see a word like amount, remember that even
though it refers to a number of things, it is singular.
Since amount is singular, the verb should be keeps.
Although, (A), connects the two parts of the sentence.
Claim, (C), is plural, agreeing with account holders. Are
improving is the correct use of the progressive verb form.
17. D
Difficulty: High
Note that this sentence presents a comparison; look to see
whether the comparison is logical.
Comparisons require parallel structure; here, since the first
thing being compared is to compare, the second should be
to attempt (rather than attempting). The preposition to, (A),
is correctly placed after the verb compare. The verb is, (B),
agrees with the subject to compare (even though the word
closest to the verb is the plural noun losses). Than, (C),
completes the idiom is more than.
18. E
Difficulty: High
Don't forget that (E) is the correct answer choice just as
many times as the other answer choices are.
Take the sentence choice by choice. The modifying
phrase like that of many braggarts, (A), correctly refers
to and modifies the businessperson's success, (B). The
adjective impressive, (C), correctly refers to the success.
The expression had done no work to attain iC (D), is good,
idiomatic English.